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At a Indian restaurant, the waiter said, "We have regular and spicy... And Indian spicy." Then he goes, "I usually don't offer Indian spicy to everybody". I'm brown, and I was given special treatment. But honestly I think I broke his heart when I asked for regular because he thought I could hang.
Sorry man! 😭
One of my proudest moments as a white dude who likes spicy stuff was when a buddy and I were hanging out with some local guys while on a trip to Mexico. I was just chowing down on some super hot salsa and one of the Mexican guys gets real excited and starts calling me "the blond Mexican". I'm sure my wife is tired of that story, but I will continue to tell it to her for the rest of my days.
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Well done, dude. It is a fine and honorable story to tell, and let no one tell you otherwise!
Woah. If there's one thing that excites me more than foreigners speaking Spanish, it's people eating our food how it should be eaten. Well done! I hope you enjoyed yourself.
The food culture of Mexico is amazing, and if you're eating at the right places there is usually no option but to speak Spanish! I've had to request "más picante" before, though generally that is at restaurants used to serving gringos. At tianguis or taco guys on the street there's usually no problem getting the spice.
Güero! Estas invitado a la carne asada!
I’m white and they said that to me once, but there was such an underlying tone of menace in “Indian hot” that I knew they weren’t fucking around.
That is such a perfect way to describe how "Indian hot" is offered! No malice, of course, just an honest warning!
Why don't you make hot a little hotter, make that the top number and make that a little hotter?
Most places only have 10 hot, but if you're chowing on 10 and want to go hotter, where can you go from there? That's why ours goes to 11
A friend and I went to an indian place and got their hottest dish. We both kinda shrugged at it, and the waiters took offense and brought out raw onions slathered in hot sauce. Eating those helped, but it still wasn't really spicy, ya know? Neither of us are even the heat fanatics, habanero levels of hot are good enough, so maybe some places just do like 5s and hope nobody wants the 10s.
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Sometimes when my boyfriend and I want a spicy cuisine, I’ll do the online ordering because I’m the one with the non-white name. He’s convinced they tone down the spice levels when they see his name on the order.😂
I’m white British and went through this at a New Zealand Indian restaurant. After all the warnings, Indian spicy was barely even mid-level spicy. I’m from Bradford and don’t need mollycoddling.
In my experience Indians and British Asians are not even that into spice heat as a whole.
Bradford counts as its own race, regardless of skin pigmentation
My wife is West Indian and trying to convince restaurants she wants actually spicy food is a constant struggle
I'm VERY white, and so is my tolerance of spicyness. I always have to ask if the food is actually spicy or Dutch-spicy, because if it's the former, I'll take the extra mild please.
We call that "Upper Midwest Spicy" in my house.
A kebab place in town used to have their spicyness range from "Norwegian mild" to "immigrant spicy".
I once went from my regular order of "Norwegian spicy" up to "immigrant mild". Bad move for me, delicious kebab though.
I'm white, my wife is Desi. She can't handle spicy food, and I thrive on it. We order each other's dishes.
I kinda wanna ask for Indian spicy next time I go to a restaurant
Ask if they could bring just a spoon full for you to test your might. I bet they'd have a laugh setting your intestines on fire.
One time I was at an event with Indian catering. I picked the dish I wanted, and the caterers warned me that it was spicy. I was halfway through it when the person I was having a chat with asked if the spicy dish was good. I was like "what? This is supposed to be spicy?" Then I paid attention and realised it was a bit spicy, I just forgot because it was less spice than I'm used to. It was delicious though and I used my naan to soak up all the sauce
I guess that was probably white spicy. I want to try Indian spicy now
I'm a white guy and I genuinely love searing mouth pain followed shortly by burning bowel movements and it takes a real effort to convince most restaurants that I can handle the heat.